Neuroradiology: Page 115

Monteris cleared for NeuroBlate study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI-guided laser ablation technology developer Monteris Medical said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an investigational device exemption application for a study of the firm's NeuroBlate technology in a potential new indication.

September 7, 2016

Piramal Imaging inks Taiwan deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical imaging developer Piramal Imaging has given PET Pharm Biotech exclusive rights to manufacture, market, and distribute its Neuraceq (florbetaben F-18) radiopharmaceutical throughout Taiwan.

September 6, 2016

DTI-MRI links key brain regions to cognitive disorders

By Wayne Forrest

Using diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI), researchers have located two areas of the brain with increased atrophy, infarctions, and lesions that collectively create a kind of logjam that contributes to cognitive impairment and/or dementia, according to a paper published online September 6 in Radiology.

September 6, 2016

Whole-brain RT no good for metastasized lung cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Whole-brain radiotherapy is of little benefit for patients whose lung cancer has spread to the brain -- despite its widespread use, according to a new study published online September 4 in Lancet.

September 4, 2016

MRI finds something fishy in outbreak of brain infections

By Wayne Forrest

When more than 200 people in Singapore were afflicted simultaneously with group B streptococcal bacterium and acute central nervous system infections, Singaporean healthcare professionals had to act quickly. Their first move was to turn to diffusion-weighted MRI for answers.

September 1, 2016

Smartphone app enables remote surgical consultations

By Erik L. Ridley

If necessary, can on-call spine surgeons make good decisions about whether or not to operate on a thoracolumbar spine fracture just by viewing video clips of CT images on a smartphone app? Yes, they can, according to research from an Israeli group published online recently in the Spine Journal.

August 31, 2016

PET, fMRI find beer reflex in brain

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers from Indiana University used PET and functional MRI (fMRI) to find a small section of the brain that controls one's craving for alcohol, according to a study published online in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

August 30, 2016

Ultrasound jump-starts patient's brain after coma

By Erik L. Ridley

A team from the University of California, Los Angeles has successfully used ultrasound to jump-start a patient's brain as he recovered from a coma, restoring full consciousness and language comprehension within three days of the procedure.

August 25, 2016

MRgFUS shows effectiveness for essential tremor

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) therapy can produce dramatic and lasting improvements in patients with moderate to severe essential tremor, according to a multicenter clinical trial published in the August 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

August 24, 2016

New PET device could go to your head

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers are developing quite the novel way to acquire PET brain scans. Rather than placing a patient in a conventional scanner, he or she would wear a helmet outfitted with PET detectors, according to an article published August 22 on Smithsonian.com.

August 23, 2016

MRI shows promise in diagnosing CTE in living patients

By Wayne Forrest

MRI scans four years apart have detected a loss of brain volume in regions associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The results could be the first time the degenerative neurological condition has been identified in a living person, according to a paper published online August 23 in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

August 22, 2016

Lack of reimbursement doesn't slow use of perfusion MRI

By Wayne Forrest

The use of perfusion MRI is growing for neurological applications, even though there is no specific reimbursement for the technique, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

August 21, 2016

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